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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Copying rows in a two dimensional array.
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:53:53 +0000 (UTC)
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> In Ada, if you do "P(X(5..10));" procedure P can see that the
> lower bound is 5.  That's a break in the abstraction -- P shouldn't
> know or care where the string came from.
    For many, but not all, P.

> Actually, slices are one of the least useful features of Ada.
> I wouldn't mind (much) if they didn't exist in the first place.
   Wow, I beg to strongly differ.